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Oct 7, 2026
7 quotes about wisdom from Gloria Steinem, Wendell Berry, Fulton Sheen, Stephen Hawking, Warren Buffett, David Attenborough and Neem Karoli Baba — on unlearning, curiosity, honesty, experience, and knowing the limits of what we know. We lost two of these voices in the autumn of 2026.
Sep 15, 2026
A deep dive on Wendell Berry — the Kentucky farmer-poet who wrote more than fifty books in pencil by daylight and plowed his hillside with Belgian draft horses, the man who coined 'Eating is an agricultural act' and launched the modern movement for sustainable farming with The Unsettling of America; the author of the Port William novels and of 'Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,' who spent his long life defending small farms, local economies, and the care of the land, and was twice arrested for his convictions — once against a nuclear plant, once against mountaintop-removal coal mining; his defining reflections on the care of the Earth, the real work of not knowing, the watershed ethic, and being joyful though you have considered all the facts; and the legacy of the National Humanities Medal winner and 2012 Jefferson Lecturer who died at ninety-two on August 31, 2026, remembered by farmers, poets, and seekers alike.
Sep 3, 2026
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky farmer, poet, and essayist who championed small farms and the care of the land for more than sixty years, on living each day with the lightness of a bird and leaving without regret — a final gift from the author who died at his home in Port Royal on August 31, 2026, at the age of 92, as the world opened his books again.